Ko Ngati Kahungunu te iwi Ko Jack toku papa Ko Patricia toku mama Ko Jack me ko Sebastion me ko Richard aku tungane Ko Zara taku tuahine Ko Heretaunga toku kainga Ko Riverslea toku kura Ko Maraea taku ingoa No reira tena koutou tena koutou tena koutou katoa
My Goals 2016
1. 2. 3.
2015
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to add all my numbers in Maths. 2. Learn to ride a bike on the Pump Track fast. 3. Learn to read books up to Level 18.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1. The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety. We know to get down, get low, get out fast. We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School. We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers. It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything. We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and the Solar system and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well. The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there. We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting and playing at the new playground at Windsor park. We also had a Wet and Wild fun day. We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting. Lots of us achieved our goals in learning. 2015 was a great year. Miharo is awesome. Merry Xmas everyone.
At the Hakinakina Sports. Visiting the new playground at Windsor Park.
Wet and Wild day. Fun Xmas glasses.
We have done lots of learning on the ipads and visiting places like the Planetarium.
I liked the Hakinakina sports. It was fun swimming there.
The wet and wild day was lots of fun. I could slide right off the mat.
Mrs Bennett put dish washing liquid on the mat to make it slippery.
I am reading up to Level 17 now. My goal was Level 12 at the beginning of Term 3.
I can do adding and take aways by myself now up to 20.
I can also ride a bike on the bike track and Pump track fast.
(Maraea)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month. We have still been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things. We have learnt about Augumented Reality . That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move. I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container. We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’. We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting. We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths. Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already. Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day. He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England. We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all. Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook. The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams. We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark. We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Improvement award at T3 end of Term assembly. Wheku masks at assembly
Playground at the Skatepark. Jump Jam.
Omnigym trip
I liked getting the Improvement award at T3 assembly and the trip to the Omnigym best. (Maraea)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads. They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi. They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school. The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun (Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1. We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo. Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points. PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills. We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now. We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some excellent progress in those areas. The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara) in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too. The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka. We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross Country and PMP inside on a wet day. Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry. I can do coding and learn maths patterns too on the ipad too.
I am learning lots on the ipads.I also like PMP and running. I liked getting my Duffy book from the Rotary at the Duffy Assembly. I am reading harder books now at Level 14. I like doing writing best. I am good at spelling my own words now. (Maraea)
I like all the things that the students get involved in. Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports. PMP has stopped because of the price. I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present the programme independently. ipad app learning is going well. I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves. Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know. Maraea is at Level 14 in Reading now. She is making great progress .Mum is listening to her read at home too and helping with her spelling words. Maraea can write nearly 1 page of story independently and is at Stage 3 Maths now. She was at Stage 1 Maths when she came to Riverslea earlier this year. She was also reading at Level 3.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1. We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP. We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club) as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use. We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary. We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school and ran around the track with the children. We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment for the Junior school. We love all the new gear. We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term and have made some great progress in that area. Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
I love learning and playing sports with my friends.
My colourful wheku mask. I am balancing at PMP
I liked the Sports day. We had lots of fun. We played lots of different games too. I like ball games best. I liked getting my face painted. I like PMP too. Its fun too. My mask is colourful. The best thing I like is playing and learning with my friends in the classroom too. (Maraea)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August. I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities such as sports days and Hearty's visit. We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing. The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall. The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths. (Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo) We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane. We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school. We were involved in the Preschool opening. Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches. We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books. We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament. We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games. We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland. We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I liked making 'Not Perfect' Hats. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland
I liked the Duffy Theatre and the Rippa Rugby. We won most of the games.\ I liked making a 'Not Pefect Hat.' The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland (Maraea)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas), The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn (our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland (Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1. We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things. We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps. Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term, were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter. Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us about not bullying and being nice to others. We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too. We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett. Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks. We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau, Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1, and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband), who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet. We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks. It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us. One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland. It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ. He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube. He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy. We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi. We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks. May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others, not bullying and staying healthy. Also Nga Toi with Mataua Manu. Kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
Learning movement skills in PMP Learning/talking with my buddy.
We did lots of things in May. I liked the trip to the Farm and the Skatepark. I am getting really good on the ipads now. I am nearly at my goal in reading. I am just starting Level 10. I have gone up in Maths and can write 3 sentences and try and spell words by myself. My writing is smaller now too. I liked the circus a lot. (Maraea))
Maraea has gone up 3 levels in reading since she came at the end of February and is making steady progress. She has gone up to stage 2 in Maths and is developing independence in storywriting. She is beginning to attempt to spell many of her own words. Next I want to accelerate her reading progress. She is working in a group with me and Miss Hall also. I also want to extend her writing and Maths skills. She has taken more of an interest in her learning now. Lots of praise and positive reinforcement and motivating work will help her continue to accelerate her progress. (Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections. We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere. Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work. We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals. We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination. We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council. We picked up Litter around our school. It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart. We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly. We will make lots of other connections this term. We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths. We know o’clock and half past. We are all improving in our reading. We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now. We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories. We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate. We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads. Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki. (Mrs B)
I likedmaking Easter eggs at Easter time. I am getting better at reading. I am nearly on Level 9 now. I was on Level 3 when I came to Riverslea ( in March) I want to write longer stories in writing I need to write my words smaller. My goal is to be good at writing my own words in my stories. I found diamond shapes in the fence outside taking photos on the ipads in Maths. I liked picking up the Litter with the Litter thing (Maraea)
I want to further extend Maraea in reading. She is now making steady progress. Her reading group gets extra support from a Teachers aide. I want to also extend her interest in spelling most of her own words in story-writing. Next we will also extend her counting on and developing imaging skills in Mathematics. (Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Making Easter eggs. Picking up Litter with Mrs Bennett and Whaea Wendy from the Council. Making a Comic Life with Shaolyn on the shapes we found outside.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening. We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus. We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere. We had fun and loved all the games and free swim. In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates. We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things. We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae. We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish. We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins. We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now. Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground. We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too. Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey. We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck. We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool. (Mrs B & R1)
I liked helping with the recycling.We learnt a lot about it. We saw all the rubbish at the Transfer station.. The skate park was fun. I liked the big bowl best. I could go around on it. I didn't go to the swimming. (Maraea)
Recycling and Learning
My lego house. I recycled brown bottles at the Transfer Station
I could ride my scooter on the ramps. I am doing Mahi Toi with Matua Manu
Table of Contents
2016
Pepeha
Ko Ngati Kahungunu te iwiKo Jack toku papa
Ko Patricia toku mama
Ko Jack me ko Sebastion me ko Richard aku tungane
Ko Zara taku tuahine
Ko Heretaunga toku kainga
Ko Riverslea toku kura
Ko Maraea taku ingoa
No reira
tena koutou
tena koutou
tena koutou
katoa
My Goals 2016
1.2.
3.
2015
My Goals 2015
1. Learn to add all my numbers in Maths.2. Learn to ride a bike on the Pump Track fast.
3. Learn to read books up to Level 18.
Nov/Dec
Inquiry, ICT Visitors and Visiting.
A busy couple of months with lots of action and learning in Room 1.
The Firemen visited us to teach us about fire safety.
We know to get down, get low, get out fast.
We also learnt lots when the Mobile Learning Centre came to Riverslea School.
We used Robots,3D google cardboard,3D printers and ipads and apple computers.
It was fun, we learnt lots and all had turns at using everything.
We have been finding out all sorts of interesting things about space and the Solar system
and planets in our Inquiry T4.We visited the Planetarium as well.
The Hakinakina Athletics and Tabloids were fun. We also had a swim there.
We had some fun end of year activities too like visiting
and playing at the new playground at Windsor park.
We also had a Wet and Wild fun day.
We loved our Xmas glasses, our Secret Santas and
all the candy canes and chocolate Santas we kept getting.
Lots of us achieved our goals in learning.
2015 was a great year.
Miharo is awesome.
Merry Xmas everyone.
At the Hakinakina Sports. Visiting the new playground at Windsor Park.
Wet and Wild day. Fun Xmas glasses.
We have done lots of learning on the ipads and visiting places like the Planetarium.
I liked the Hakinakina sports. It was fun swimming there.
The wet and wild day was lots of fun. I could slide right off the mat.
Mrs Bennett put dish washing liquid on the mat to make it slippery.
I am reading up to Level 17 now. My goal was Level 12 at the beginning of Term 3.
I can do adding and take aways by myself now up to 20.
I can also ride a bike on the bike track and Pump track fast.
(Maraea)
October
Trips learning and fun.
We have had lots of learning and fun in Room 1 again this month.
We have still been learning lots with our buddies
and enjoying using the ipads for learning new things.
We have learnt about Augumented Reality .
That is when the pictures we look at with the ipad stand out and move.
I like the alphabet animals and the dinosaurs They are cool.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We are making panels to put on the bike container.
We showed our wheku masks at Assembly. Everyone liked them.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ‘The Solar System’.
We are learning lots of things about space and planets. It is really interesting.
We are still making great progress in Reading, Writing and Maths.
Some of us have gone up 12 levels in Reading this year already.
Mr Twinn came to visit us again the other day.
He showed us lots of photos of his trip to Scotland and England.
We liked the castles and big mountain that he climbed (Ben Nevis) best of all.
Our two trips were awesome. Look at the photos on our wikis and the school Facebook.
The Omnigym was great .We learnt how to do lots of activities
and use lots of equipment like bars, mats, benches, tramps, ropes and beams.
We all loved the Fun trip to the Skatepark.
We had fun on scooters and skateboards and on the playground.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
Improvement award at T3 end of Term assembly. Wheku masks at assembly
Playground at the Skatepark. Jump Jam.
Omnigym trip
I liked getting the Improvement award at T3 assembly and the trip to the Omnigym best. (Maraea)
The children continued to learn both in books and on the ipads.
They were involved in making art panels for the Bike shed in Nga Toi.
They also started Jump Jam for Fitness every morning as a whole school.
The trip to the Omnigym and Skatepark helped reinforce physical activity skills and fun
(Mrs B)
September
Lots to learn and do.
In September we have still been learning and having fun in Room 1.We enjoy using the ipads for learning new things especially on SkoolBo.
Hemara got a trophy, for the school, from them for getting 10,000 points.
PMP is nearly finished. We have learnt lots of new activities and skills.
We have finished our Inquiry “All About Me,” on ourselves and our whanau
and friends and our healthy bodies. We know lots of things about our Inquiry now.
We got some great results for reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some excellent progress in those areas.
The best fun was the Hakinakina Cross country. We got 1st (Van) 2nd (Boyden) and 3rd (Hemara)
in the Year 2 boys and 2nd (Hohepa) in the Year 1 Boys. The girls ran well too.
The Duffy Role Model Assembly was great with Rob Mokoraka.
We also got our Duffy books which were fabulous.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
The Hakinakina Cross Country and PMP inside on a wet day.
Learning 'All About Me', in our Inquiry. I can do coding and learn maths patterns too on the ipad too.
I am learning lots on the ipads.I also like PMP and running.
I liked getting my Duffy book from the Rotary at the Duffy Assembly.
I am reading harder books now at Level 14.
I like doing writing best. I am good at spelling my own words now.
(Maraea)
I like all the things that the students get involved in.
Was very proud of the tamariki at the Hakinakina sports.
PMP has stopped because of the price.
I am going to hook into some training so that next year I can present
the programme independently.
ipad app learning is going well.
I introduce an app and then let the students try it out themselves.
Often they can come back 15 minutes later and show me something that I did not know.
Maraea is at Level 14 in Reading now. She is making great progress
.Mum is listening to her read at home too and helping with her spelling words.
Maraea can write nearly 1 page of story independently and is at Stage 3 Maths now.
She was at Stage 1 Maths when she came to Riverslea earlier this year.
She was also reading at Level 3.(Mrs B)
July/August
Visitors and learning
July and August have been great months for learning and fun in Room 1.
We have been learning lots with our buddies and enjoying using the ipads
for learning new things as well as fun activities like PMP.
We had a Sports day with the Hastings City Council and leaders came
such as Henare OKeefe (Duffy Books)and Paddy Stafford (Tamatea Rugby Club)
as well as a policewoman and other helpers. They cooked us a sausage sizzle for lunch
and we played lots of great games too. Paddy also donated some Rugby balls for us to use.
We have been involved in Nga Toi. We loved making our wheku masks. They look cool and scary.
We have been having a focus for Inquiry on ourselves and our whanau and friends
and our healthy bodies this term. Hearty from the Heart foundation came to visit our school
and ran around the track with the children.
We were lucky as Mrs Donaldson and her daughter Michelle raised money for new sports equipment
for the Junior school. We love all the new gear.
We are becoming amazing at reading and writing and Maths this term
and have made some great progress in that area.
Room 1 is Miharo and we are awesome.
I love learning and playing sports with my friends.
My colourful wheku mask. I am balancing at PMP
I liked the Sports day. We had lots of fun.
We played lots of different games too.
I like ball games best.
I liked getting my face painted.
I like PMP too. Its fun too.
My mask is colourful.
The best thing I like is playing and learning with my friends
in the classroom too.
(Maraea)
We had lots of fun activities again in July and August.
I spent these months supporting the children in all the activities
such as sports days and Hearty's visit.
We had lots of fun making wheku masks. They looked amazing.
The children wrote stories about them and put them up on the wall.
The tamariki are learning a lot on the ipads to help their progress in reading, writing and Maths.
(Mrs Bennett)
June
Lots of fun connections and activities.
June was another amazing month in Room 1 (Miharo)
We watched the Bike container being shifted by a huge crane.
We are going to put Art (Nga Toi) all over it and make it a feature of our school.
We were involved in the Preschool opening.
Room 1 helped make pizzas for the kai and sung waiata after the speeches.
We had the Duffy Theatre visit and got our Duffy books.
We learnt Te Reo Kori with Sport HB and went in a school Te Reo Kori tournament.
We went in a Hakinakina Rippa Rugby tournament with other schools. We won lots of games.
We Skyped Mr Twinn at his Dad’s place in Scotland.
We all asked him questions and showed him pictures. He sent us photos too.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
June was another awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
At the Preschool Opening.We sang Tutira Mai. The Duffy Theatre was cool.
I liked making 'Not Perfect' Hats. We won lots of games in Rippa Rugby.
We skyped Mr Twinn in Scotland
I liked the Duffy Theatre and the Rippa Rugby.
We won most of the games.\
I liked making a 'Not Pefect Hat.'
The best thing was Skyping Mr Twinn.He showed us outside his house in Scotland
(Maraea)
We had lots of fun activities this month.I spent the month supporting the children in all the activities
and helping organise many of them such as kai for the preschool opening(Our class made pizzas),
The Duffy Theatre,The Hakinakina Rippa Rugby between 4 other schools and Skyping Mr Twinn
(our ex Student Teacher) in Scotland
(Mrs Bennett)
May
May saw Mr Twinn, Student Teacher and Matua Torp as part of Room 1.We had lots of adventures and learning. We were involved in lots of fun things.
We shared some of our experiences through ,Write about it and Book Creator ipad apps.
Some of those connections, which is what our Inquiry is about this term,
were our trip to Mr McFarlane’s farm where we saw sheep, cows ,bulls and a helicopter.
Seeing Whaea Anne and Harold the giraffe in the Life Education truck taught us
about not bullying and being nice to others.
We had an artist Matua Brandon Blair who came to school to talk about that and get us to draw posters too.
We learnt about and practised using our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone eg a teacher
and make a Statement eg ‘Stop it ,I don’t like it.”) from Mrs Bennett.
Some students made connections with Matua Manu and did Nga Toi, making kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
We made other connections with the Preschool, Mrs Donaldson, the librarian, our whanau,
Mr Twinn, Matua Torp, our buddies from other classes eg Buddy reading and sharing in oral language in R1,
and Greg Murphy a formula 1 racing car driver (Whaea Monique-student teacher in R2s husband),
who came to school to speak to us and show us all his racing gear. Hohepa tried on his $5,000 helmet.
We also had a school party to say goodbye to Mr Twinn
and Whaea Monique who had been student teachers at our school for 7 weeks.
It was sad to see them go.We hope they come back and visit us.
One of our biggest connections was using Skype. We connected to Mr Twinn’s Dad in Scotland.
It was 10.30pm at night over there and 9.30am in the morning in NZ.
He showed us the model planes that he flies and that we had seen on videos on youtube.
He also showed us a picture of Mr Twinn as a little boy.
We showed him the planes that we had made and sung him our new Riverslea song and Tutira Mai Nga Iwi.
We liked it when the circus came to visit us too. The performers could do all sorts of tricks.
May was an awesome month in Room 1, Miharo.
Farm visit, ipads and connections
Making connections with Mr MacFarlane at the farm.
In the Life Education truck with Whaea Anne learning about being nice to others, not bullying and staying healthy.
Also Nga Toi with Mataua Manu. Kowhaiwhai patterns on rocks.
Learning movement skills in PMP
Learning/talking with my buddy.
We did lots of things in May.
I liked the trip to the Farm and the Skatepark.
I am getting really good on the ipads now.
I am nearly at my goal in reading.
I am just starting Level 10.
I have gone up in Maths and can write 3 sentences
and try and spell words by myself.
My writing is smaller now too.
I liked the circus a lot.
(Maraea))
Maraea has gone up 3 levels in reading since she came at the end of February
and is making steady progress.
She has gone up to stage 2 in Maths and is developing independence in storywriting.
She is beginning to attempt to spell many of her own words.
Next I want to accelerate her reading progress. She is working in a group with me and Miss Hall also.
I also want to extend her writing and Maths skills.
She has taken more of an interest in her learning now.
Lots of praise and positive reinforcement and motivating work
will help her continue to accelerate her progress.
(Mrs B)
April
We have started studying Matariki this term and our focus is on Connections.
We are going to have lots of fun making connections everywhere.
Next week we are going to a farm where Mr Twinn, the student teacher in R1 used to work.
We will make connections with the Farmer Mr McFarlane and the animals.
We have made connections already with the Riverslea Preschool
and with Toni Ben and Graham who come to help us do PMP activities for fitness and coordination.
We also made connections with Wendy and Bridget from the Hastings council.
We picked up Litter around our school.
It was cool meeting Jocelyn Cowan who gave our school a certificate for being Sunsmart.
We also had Whaea Korina our Health Nurse talking about Healthy Foods at Assembly.
We will make lots of other connections this term.
We know what reading levels we are at and have been doing Geometry and Time in Maths.
We know o’clock and half past.
We are all improving in our reading.
We are learning to count and do addition in Maths now.
We are still learning to write FABULOUS stories.
We liked Easter as we made Easter eggs and had lots of chocolate.
We also made a Comic Life about our Geometry shapes that we found outside around the school
and learnt how to make a Puppet Pal presentation on the ipads.
Matua Torp is now working in our class too helping all the tamariki.
(Mrs B)
I liked making Easter eggs at Easter time.
I am getting better at reading.
I am nearly on Level 9 now.
I was on Level 3 when I came to Riverslea ( in March)
I want to write longer stories in writing
I need to write my words smaller.
My goal is to be good at writing my own words in my stories.
I found diamond shapes in the fence outside taking photos on the ipads in Maths.
I liked picking up the Litter with the Litter thing
(Maraea)
I want to further extend Maraea in reading. She is now making steady progress.
Her reading group gets extra support from a Teachers aide.
I want to also extend her interest in spelling most of her own words in story-writing.
Next we will also extend her counting on and developing imaging skills in Mathematics.
(Mrs B)
Maths, PMP,Connections.
Making Easter eggs. Picking up Litter with Mrs Bennett and Whaea Wendy from the Council.
Making a Comic Life with Shaolyn on the shapes we found outside.
March
We have had another busy but fun month in March , with lots of different things happening.We went to the Hakinakina swimming sports at the Aquatic centre on a bus.
We swam with Whare Tapere, Bridge Pa and Mangateretere.
We had fun and loved all the games and free swim.
In the Seniors Exzodia and Mohi-Tarau got lots of certificates.
We got some new lego in the class and had lots of fun building all sorts of things.
We also went on a class trip as we are studying Turangawaewae.
We went to the Transfer Station at Flaxmere. We looked at all the Recycling and the rubbish.
We helped Mrs Versey sort out some recycling and put them in the right bins.
We saw all the rubbish and know what happens to it now.
Afterwards we went to the Hastings skatepark and playground.
We enjoyed it there going up and down all the ramps. We brought our scooters and had lunch there too.
Mrs Versey also came to school and showed us how to make recycled paper. It came out grey.
We also had Mr Mac and Doug the Digger come to Riverslea again
for another Role Model Assembly for Duffy.We got our Duffy books and saw Mr Macs big truck.
We had the Police, Firemen and Ambulance people come and visit us too. That was really cool.
(Mrs B & R1)
I liked helping with the recycling.We learnt a lot about it.
We saw all the rubbish at the Transfer station..
The skate park was fun. I liked the big bowl best.
I could go around on it.
I didn't go to the swimming.
(Maraea)
Recycling and Learning
My lego house. I recycled brown bottles at the Transfer Station
I could ride my scooter on the ramps. I am doing Mahi Toi with Matua Manu